The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 22, 1929, Page 1

T BRSO IO DI DI SRS N S TN U TR PITAT IAR CRIRINT, TRRRCA THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5106. o e JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1929. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS WAITING TO SEE LINDBERGH; TAKEN INTO CUSTODY DENY CHARGES IN BREACH OF PROMISE CASE Tunney's Attorneys and Lauder Family Issue Statement on Suit NO GROUNDS FOR $500,000 DAMAGES Woman in Case Previously Made Affidavit—Was Thoroughly Discussed NEW YORK, May 22—Attorneys for Gene Tunney and the Lauder family have made unqualified de- nials of the claims of Mrs. Kath- erine Fogarty who is seeking $500,- 000 from Tunney for alleged breach of promise. Mrs. Lauder’s secretary said: “The matter of Mrs. Fogarty has been discussed at length by the Lauder family before the marriage and it was decided then that she had nothing to claim. Tunney's lawyer said that “num- erous threats of this kind have been made in the past by this woman culminating in insistent de- and threats, and damaging immediately before the mpionship bout. We went into a thorough examination of the claim she made and found them to be without the slightest merit. “Mrs:-Fogarty then made an af-’ fidavit sayil . .. e dcquaint- gice with John Tunney in Hot Springs in October 1924 and ‘our relations at all times have been such as" to cast no criticism or discredit, on him. I 'have no claim on him and never had any in the pat. Bhe _ things about. him tn lowyers. o e gret becauge 1 ,know of nothing that would cast’ the slightest dis- credit upon him. If any name should ever be used with his connection I now make a solemn oath that he is under no obliga- tion to me and never was.'” Tunney's lawyers said in view of the affidavits made then by Mrs. Fogarty that she had little chance in the present suit. Tunney is vacationing at Brioni, Italy. One of Tunney’s attorneys said: “Gene has wired saying that ‘this must be another joke.'" EARLY RESIDENT _ ETCHIKAN, DIES L. D. Ryus Passes Away Following Stroke of Apoplexy Sunday KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 22.— L. D. Ryus, one of Ketchikan's earliest residents died last night aftgr being stricken with apoplexy on Sunday. He was 58 years of age. who will accompany the body south on the liner Yukon; two daughters, Ruth and Helen, now in Seattle, and a son Emmett, in Ketchikan. Interment will be in Bellingham. Ryus was President of the Min- ers and Merchants Bank of Ket-| chikan. - —— F. R. Bigford, representative for the H. J. Heinz Company, arrived | on the Yukon after a trip to the ‘Westward and Interior. | | in} He is survived by his widow | | SMITH RECEIVES LAETARE MEDAL I Associated Press Photo ng the Laetare medal award- guished services by a Catholie layman. Cardinal Hayes ferma v ented the medal in New Yorks R{ghk to left: Former Coveri or ith, Cardinal Hayes and the ReVe ! Charles L. O'Donnell, presicent o fotre Dame university. Former Gov. Alfred E. Smi ed by Notre Dame universit FLAYS GOVERNMENT FOR ALLEGED ‘ CONNIVANCE WITH CRIME; JUDGE ! RAPS INTERNAL REVENUE SYSTEM CHICAGO, May 22.—Judge Da Robinson, former Fublic Defendes of Oregon, flayed the “government for connivance with organized | crime” before the American Crime | Study Commission here last night | He spoke specifically on the prac. Ltice -of .the Treasury Wepeitment | aemanding income tax returns from 7 | vice resorts and their women in- mates. “The Internal Revenuc Service is now making a caleful survey of ! ‘prosmulcs and landladies. This ‘(:hcck is not for the purpose of | terminating their disease spreading activities but the department wants to know whethet they have filed in- come tax fefurns and ¥ not, de mands a tax. If a settlement is made and the tax, plus the interest, is paid, the Government assure: these women no publicity of thei methods of livelihood will follow.” SIMMONS’ VIEW SEEN AS START OF NEW POLICY Wall Street Brokers See Radical Change in Stock Exchange Work By S. W. PRENOSIL (A. P. Financial Editor) NEW YOREK, May 22—Wall street 7 | | brokers see in the Chicago speech | of President E. H. H. Simmons of i the New York stock exchange, at- | In Poison Case | f | i | | i Associated Press Phote | Eva B. Rablen, Sonora, Cal,, who | is held on a warrant pending inves | tigation of the death of her war! veteran husband, whom she mel through a marriage bureau. |tacking the credit program of the Concealed Behmd De'nse federal' reserve board, a radical ; _change in stock exchange policy. ! ClOUdS, Mxmic War- l Instead of remaining silent, ex- | fare Is Success {eept when called to testify in offi- icial investigations, as it has done lin the past, the exchange appar- NEW YORK, May 22.—An Army ently has decided to adopt a mili- ibomber completed a successful raid tant attitude. }in mimic warfare on New York| For years the stock exchange, City. | through more rigid regulations of Concealed behind heavy clouds, ! business and ethical conduct, and which it had fought from Wright!more complete corporate publicity, |Field, Dayton, Ohio, the plane drop- has been removing or alleviating {ped three parachute flares over thethe conditions which brough* criti- :Army Post just below the tip of {cism in former days. Manhattan. The bomber then turn- | Such practices as “wash sales” ed about and landed at Bolling whereby large blocks of stock were Field, Washington, D. C. |turned over without actual change —— |in ownership, to give the appear- INDEPENDENCE, Kas., May 22. —Harry Sinclair may thank his boyhood drugstore experience in Independence for his present free- dem from jail drudgery. It was here at the University of Kansas that Sinclair learned the druggists’ trade, a qualification that now enesbles him to serve as an ht pharmacist while passing ay sentence in the District lumbia jail. Sinclair's home town well re- members the youth who disliked the “tame life” of_a drug clerk. They recall the oil magnate as a boy who ran errands in his father's drug store, and later managed it. That was 30 years ago. He left Independence in 1907 to make his first “strike” in the Cush- man oil field of Oklahoma, then in its first stages of development. His holdings soon produced 35,000 bar- rels a day. Returning to Inde- HOME TOWN REMEMBERS SINCLAIR i AS RESTLESS DRUG STORE CLERK ance of strength and activity; alzo so-called “bucketing,” whereby the | brok:rs took positions against their customers, have been forbidden un- | penalty of expulsion. pendence, he built one of the town's' Corporations applying for listing most pretentious homes. |privileges now are required, except Three years later he moved to in a few: cases, to make quarterly Tulsa, built another mansion and | formed a company that built that city’s first skyscraper. Independence has not been slight- ed since Sinclair made his millions. For years he has topped the list, of donors to any local cause. In 1919, when two companies of Inde- pendence soldiers returned from France, he ordered a tug loaded with delicacies to meet the ship at quarantine. Later he gave each Independence veteran a $20 bill. For the past 10 years Sinclair give advance notice of proposed changes in ecapitalization. There 1Contlnued on Page Two) Widow of “Big Tim” Weds Gangster’s Pal CHICAGO, May 22—The widow of “Big Tim” Murphy has taken ‘;unbo herself a second husband, has provided uniforms for the gshg “:z:gb:") :)b:;ta, (xm;:j: 'fbr:‘; town’s band. He donated a wouded‘pflls i it v o tract for park purposes, ard has| foey sought to keep their mar- given numerous trophies for Inde-l,rmge at McHenry, Ill, a secret, pendence. sport tournaments. {but it became known last night. Sinclair's wife was Elizabeth Fer- | «pjg Tim” was shot to death by rell, daughter of a pioneer Inde- unknown assailants in front of his pendence family. 'Rogers Park home last spring. reports of their earnings, and to| PRESTON M. TROY 1S DEAD AT HOME IN OLYMPIA, W, Leading Lawyer of Wash-i ington and Brother of Juneauite Passes Away Preston M. Troy, one of the; leading lawyers and most prom- inent citizens of the State of Washington, died last night at Olympia, according to telegraphic advices received this morning byl his brother, John W. Troy of this City. He had been iil for some= time, and about two weeks ago & letter from his daughter, Mrs. Gary Lemon of Olympia, said that heart trouble had developed and that ne hope was entertained of his recov- ery though he might live until fall. He was opearted on for goitre late |last fall, and later an ocean voyage |was prescribed. Accompanied by his |wife, he spent most of the winter |at Honolulu. | Pioneer’s Eldest Son | Preston Marion Troy was the jeldest son of Smith Troy, one of (the well known pioneers of Wash-, |ington Territory, and was born at IDungeness, January 22, 1867. His ather and mother, the latter Laura Bass Weir, were the first |young couple to be married in Clallam County. His early years were spent on a farm and attend- ing district schools. He received higher .eds: zetinny LWe old Olym- pia Collegiate Institute and at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was graduated in law in 1893. Follow- in graduation he located at Olym- pia. For fifteen years he prac-‘ ticed law with A. J. Falknor, now a prominent Seattle lawyer, under |the name of Troy and Falknor. |When Falknor went to Seattle, |the firm became Troy and Sturde- vant and when Judge Sturdevaay died, it became Troy and Yantis. He was in active practice until the| end. His son, Harold Preston Troy, who was also a graduate of the University of Michigan law school, joined the law firm two years ago. Foy many years he was Vice-Presi- {dent, and for several years Presi- dent of the Olympia National Bank. | He had served many terms when a young lawyer as City Attorncy |of Olympia and was Prosecuting Attorney of Thurston County sev- Twice he was a can- didate for Supreme Court Justice, but failed of election. He was one of the most prominent lawyers of the Democatic Party of his State, but was rarely, and then usually against his will, a candidate for office. He attended several Demo- cratic National Conventions. Law Took Attention Politics was only an avocation with Mr. Troy. His vocation was the law and his large practice re-| quired his whole attention. In fact, |too close application to his work | is assigned by physicians as one of | the causes that caused his break down in his early 60's. His stand- ing as a lawyer was very high. He was President of the Washington State Bar Association a few years ago. He had been prominent in the Masonic bodies for many years,| and was a Past Master of Olympia Lodge No. 1, of the Masonic Blue Lodge. He was married in 1896 to Miss Eva Sturdevant, daughter of Judge! Robert F. Sturdevant of the Su- perior Court at Dayton, Washing- ton. Judge Sturdevant spent the last years.of his life as his law partner. Three sons and two| daughter resulted from the union. i® |in {an active part in the Capital to |He is going to Oakland for the 110, when Miss Thompson receives MR. COOLIDGE ASSUMES | Debenture Plan | Stumbling Block, | Touse and Senate | . WASHINGTON, May The House members of the Farm Relief Conference Committee stood firm in their contention that the debenture plan must be elim- inated from consideration before agreement would be approached on the differen- ces between the House and Senate Farm biils. The meeling oi the com- mittees broke up in total dis- ment for the second ime but members plan fur- © ther meetings however. e ceo0 000 cessee S P RIGHARDSON WILL REST AT WEST POINT Will Bury Famous Officer| at Academy Where He Was Instructor 29 1t is now “Calvin Coolidge, Insurance company.” ted Coolidge was formally elcc Kingslcy, president of the company, at the n NEW ROLE! Associated Press I'hoto , director of the New Yerk Life The former president is shown with Darwin mecting at which Mr, WASHINGTON, May 22. — Gen. wilds Preston Richardson, U. s.! To Sail With Parents Army, retired, who died at the| Walter Reed Hospital after many months of illness, Monday morn- ing, will be taken to West Point today for burial. Gen. Richardson was instructor in tactics at West Point for five years from 1892 until 1897. Gen. Richardson was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for work in Russian during the World ‘War when he commanded the Am- erican expeditioary forces that were sent to the White Sea. For {wenty | years before the war he was in gervice in Alaska, most of the time in+charge of the Alaska Road Com- mission, of which he was President from the time of its organization ( 1905 until he went to the World War as a Brigadier-General in 1917. - eee - Natalie Guggenheim, copper heir ess, secretly married Thomas A. Gorman, real estate dealer. Her GOV. PARKS T0 TAKE PART IN |-scediosai sz CRUISER RAGE| ™ - b Will Accompany Auditor| Marries Heiress Cole on Jazz when it ; Competes in Race Gov. George A. Parks will take! Capital Yacht Race between Olym- pia and Juneau, it became known today. When the Jazz, local entry of Auditor Cash Cole, and captain- ed by him for the big event, leaves Olympia for Juneau on June 15,| next, the Governor will be aboard | to give him a hand if necessary and to do all the “pulling” in his power for the Juneau boat. Gov. Parks has been granted leave by the Department of Interior to visit the States' early next month. graduation of his niece, Miss Mary C. Thompson, at Mills College. He will leave here about June 1, for Oakland and be there until June| New picture of Thomas A. Gor man, 26-year-old Port Washington, her degree. He will then return to Olympia for the race. If plans the Governor has in mind for his trip south can be ly married Natalie Guggenheim, helress, now en route to Europe. The eldest son, Robert, died in his| youth. The second son, Harold,| was a partner in his law office| for the last two years. The young-| est son, Smith, is a law student at the University of Washington where he is now President of the student body. His daughter, Mar- ion, was married several years ago to Gary Lemon, son of one of the leading business men of Olympia. Besides his children and widow, deceased is survived by two sis-| ters, Mrs. Sara Troy Callow, of |at an early morning hour for Se- (attle, landing there in time to take |passage on a regular commercial satsifactorily worked out, he will go from Juneau to San Francisco in a single day. He hopes to be able to take a plane out of here LOEW HEIRS T0 SEPARATE plane and reach San Francisco the | afternoon of the same day sum‘Agrccment Follows a trip would be a record for travel between Juneau and the California nqu'l Promise Made to city. “Lay Cards on Table” ———-—— N. Y., real estate agent, who secret- | Pre-: CHINESE GET READY TO WAR, PEAL EARNEST Natiahatins yill Big Army Moving Against 200,- 000 Soldiers NANEING, China, May 22.—Thc larggst NaGKalst ArTiy ‘eves Move northward to meet the threat of the Civil War break between the Na- tionalists Government, headed by Gen. Chiang Kal Shek, and Mar- shal Feng Yushsiang, Christian General and War Lord of the Cen- tral Frovinces, is creeping today. Conditions have not yet reached proportions of open warfare, but are anticipated. Apparently reliable estimates were to'the effect that 170,000 National- ists soldiers are moving over three tes to the impending war zone. It is reported Feng is placing 1200,000 soldiers in Nonan Province ong the Lunghi Railway and southern bank of the Yellow River, and in Southern Shensi to meet the advance. - - ‘Mountain Storekeeper and Wife Battle with | Assailants and Win REDDING, Cal, May 22—A mountain storekeeper and his wife |fought two armed masked bandits |in their isolated store and won. | Awakened in the dead of night, | Mrs. Edward Hufford grappled with one man while her husband, aged |71 years, grabbed a shotgun and | began his work. { Realizing they were bested, the I bandits started retreating, dragging !Mrs. Hufford with them. They ”ubundu!u‘d her after reaching the {main highway. Hufford then op- |ened fire but the assailants es- | caped. GERMAN, UNDER SUSPICION, IS ITAKEN, CUSTODY Seeking Interview with | Lindbergh, Alleged In- ventor Questioned NORTH HAVEN CITIZENS ARE QUICKLY AROUSED Recent Threats to Kidnap Morrow’s Daughter Causes Fast Action NORTH HAVEN, Maine, May 22. -Robert Tondera, aged 40, a Ger- man, who claims he is an aviation mechanic with an invention he wished to discuss with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, has been taken by hoat to Rockland for questioning by the sheriff. Tondera arrived in Maine from New York on Monday, via Mexico City. He said he met Col. Lind- bergh in Mexico. After arriving in North Haven he spent considerable time around the Morrow estate where Lindbergh vas staying with Miss Anne Mor- row and other members of the ‘amily. Villagers who were keyed to a lugh pitch by the recent attempt o kidnap Miss Constance Morrow, >ecame suspicious of Tondera and >osted a constable over his logings. Tondera readily agreed to go to Rockland for an inquiry. GREEN FLASH IS READY FOR. ROME FLIGH Monoplane in Hangar Awaiting Fair Weath- er for Ocean Trip OLD ORCHARD, Maine, May 22. —The monoplane Green Flash rest- ed in the hangar here waiting for a 4,700 mile flight to Rome which the weather advices indicated could not begin before Monday. Roger O. Williams, pilot, and Lewis A. Yancey, navigator, check- :d over the plane’s motor, instru- ments and refueled during the en- ‘orced delay here. “When the Weather Man says go,’ we go,” said Yancey. ‘The course will be southeast along the Fortieth parallel, straight to the tip of Spain, then over the Mediterranean to Rome. The Green Flash will carry fuel for 60 hours but the fliers expect to make the flight in 50 hours. .- Woman Burned to Death, House Fire WEIMAR, Texas, May 22.—Mrs. 8. P. Ooggett was burned to death, and her husband and daughter were seriously burned when flames idestroyed their home here early this morning. BULGARIAN STATE . MINISTERS BLOCK 3 CUT IN PAY ROLL | SOFIA, May 22—Drastic reduc- ticn in the number of government cmployees was urged by M. Mol- off, Minister of Finance, as a meth- od of reducing the annual budget |of Bulgaria. i When figures for the new fiscal iyear were submitted to Parliament, some of the legislators exclaimed jat the total and the minister ex- Abeline, Texas, and Mrs. Laura/® ® ¢ @ @ 0 & 0 © © .0 6 8! yNpyw YORK, May e Am- Troy Stone of Long Beach, Cali- ® TODAY’S STOCK ® |erican tod: said Mr. and Mr fornia. Another brother, David ® QUOTATIONS ® | Arthur Loew, heirs to motion pic- Smith Troy, prominent 1egislator10 @0 00000000000 (. s have agreed 1o m,p_:plflined that efforts to cut the repatriated war refugees. The Minister of War asked about $8,085,000 and the Department of Public Instruction for $6,430,000. All the other departments wanted less than $2,000,000 each, the lowest fig- ure being $650,000 for the Depart- ment of Foreign Affairs. Bulgaria hopes to persuade the allies with whom she signed the treaty of St. German to permit her and business ran, was a vicum! NEW YORK, Mzy 22—Alaska Ju- arate 'numbcr of state employees had |to re-establish a conscription sys- tem for her army. At present the ranks are filled to the limit of of an automobile accident in 1916.lnenu mine stock is quoted today at! mrs. Ioew is a daughter of been resisted by various depart- The funeral will be at Olympia'53%, American Smelting 100%, Cud- Adolph Zukor, and Loew is the | ments, each of which was willing Friday at 2 o'clock. |ahy 51, General Motors 75'%, Gold son of the late theatre magnate. |only that other bureaus should 25,000 imposed by the peace past, only because of the fact that the soldiers are paid on about the same scale as civil servants, but the re- sult is expensive. Besides the quality of the troops WASHINGTON, May 22—Presi- 25%, Paper B 14%, scewart-War.l - | Mrs. Doroti dent Hoover is to reappoint R. K. ner 68%. Tuckett, wife of |Smith, of Louisiana, to the Ship-/ —eto—— |Charles Tuckett, formerly of the |ping Board. His present term ex-| Mrs. Charles W. Hawkesworth left Coliseum theatre in Juneau, and |pires soon. lon the Yukon for Seattle to join now manager of the Coliseum in Smith’s nomination will be sent Mr. Hawkesworth, who is there in Ketchikan, left on the Yukon to to the Senate at once. {doin her husband. “omclal business. —————— |Dust 6%, Mack Trucks 62%, Na-| The separation agreement follows make the needed sacrifices. { oIn 1 tional Power and Light 49, U. 8.!the prenuptial promise “to lay their; The budget for this year called ‘To Reapp t-sm.lul “Su‘el 167%, Bethlehem Steel 98'4,!cm-us on the table and decide what for a total of 7,000,000,000 leva, an TO Shlppmg Board Continental Motors 19, Mathieson was best” in the event domestic|approximate equivalent to $50,000.- s ) !A]hll 46%, International Paper A relations became unhappy. :000 - o - | The Department of Public Debt is below the old standard. The martial minded peasant who used to uphold Bulgaria in battle has become wearied by almost two de« cades of continuous field service. Furthermore, he does better finan- cially by working his farm. {asked for about $15,160,000. That department not only has to look out for obligations incurred before {the war, but also for reparations | payments to the allies and for the stt of caring for thousands Jf